The concept of lifelong activism by women: how older women often get overlooked in histories of activism
On Thu Oct 10 2024, we held an online discussion about the importance of gender equality and how you can make a difference through activism.
Our panel of experts shared their experiences and insights on advocacy, empowerment, and creating change in our communities. This event for those starting out in activism to seasoned activists allowed like-minded individuals to connect and learn how to be a part of the movement towards a more equitable and inclusive society.
Prof CaitrÃona Beaumont
Professor of Social History at London South Bank University (LSBU). She is Chair of the LSBU Professoriate and a Council Member and Trustee of the Royal Historical Society. She is also a visiting full professor at University College Dublin, Ireland and in 2023 was a visiting scholar at the Centre for the History of Experiences (HEX), University of Tampere, Finland. CaitrÃona is an expert on the history of female activism, female networks and women’s social movements in Ireland and Britain across the nineteenth and twentieth century. Her first book, Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women’s Movement in England 1928-1964 was published by Manchester University Press in 2013. With Dr Eve Colpus and Dr Ruth Davidson she is co-editor of Everyday Welfare in Modern British History: experience, expertise and activism (Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience, November 2024). She is Principal Investigator (PI) on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded international research network “˜Agency and Advocacy: Locating Women’s Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, 1918 to the present’ (2023/2025).